Re: raid0 vs single, and should we allow -mdup by default on SSDs?

[Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>]

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 09:29:41AM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 01:18:40AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 07:39:12PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> > > That appears to be a very good use of either -d raid0 or -d single, yes.  
> > > And since you're apparently not streaming such high resolution video that 
> > > you NEED the raid0, single does indeed give you a somewhat better chance 
> > > at recovery.
> >  
> > zoneminder saves 'video' as a stream of independent small jpegs, so I'm
> > good. Actually come to think of it they're so small that they probably
> > all ended up in the raid1 metadata. That also means that I'm not getting
> > twice the storage space like I planned to. Oh well...
> 
>    There's a mount option to change the threshold at which files are
> inlined in metadata: maxinline=<bytes>. You could play with that for
> this particular use-case.

Oh cool, thank you.

Marc
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